JULY 7, 2024

Prelude     This is My Father's World          arr. Dale Wood

 

God reigns, let the earth be glad!

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Welcome and Greeting

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Preparation of Our Hearts

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Call to Worship     

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Hymn     # 249     Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty          (Gray Psalter Hymnal)

 

 

Prayer of Confession          Front of Gray Psalter Hymnal

 

 

Prayer for Illumination          Lou Ann Johnston

 

 

New Testament Reading     Hebrews 9:1-14     (NRSVUE)   

 

       9 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. 2For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the holy place. 3Behind the second curtain was a tent called the holy of holies. 4In it stood the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which there were a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 5above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot speak now in detail.

       6These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the first tent to carry out their ritual duties, 7but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people. 8By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent is still standing. 9This is a symbol of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper 10but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.

       11But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), 12he entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

 

Lector: This is the Word of the Lord.

 

Congregation: Thanks be to God for His Word.

 

 

Special Music     Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ          Carol Goodrich, Kris Stith, Grieke Toebes

 

 

Children’s Sermon

 

 

Hymn     # 93     My Only Comfort          (Supplemental Hymnal)

 

 

Old Testament Reading     1 Kings 5:1-5, 6:11-13, 23-28, 31-32, 37-38

 

       5 Now King Hiram of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend to David. 2Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying, 3“You know that my father David could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until he put them under the soles of his feet. 4But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune. 5So I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’

 

       11Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, 12“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, obey my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my promise with you that I made to your father David. 13I will dwell among the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.”

 

       23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high. 24Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. 25The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form. 26The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. 27He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one was touching the one wall and a wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall; their other wings toward the center of the house were touching wing to wing. 28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

 

      31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided. 32He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; he overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

 

       37In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid, in the month of Ziv. 38In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.

 

 

Sermon          Pastor Andrew Winter